Jared Wesley und Ken Boessenkool: Danielle Smith ist keine Konservative
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Jared Wesley und Ken Boessenkool: Danielle Smith ist keine Konservative
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No True Scots fallacy.
She is a conservative. Just a specific variety of it.
Just because she isnt identical to whatever purity test pepple want to apply to her doesnt make her „not a conservative“.
The definition of conservatism has changed around the end of the Harper era. Trump exacerbated that change.
Real, old school conservatives have no political home anymore and many of them won’t accept the fact the NDP are ACTUALLY more Progressive Conservative now than old school NDP.
This is such a common desperate argument. So-called conservatives have been socioeconomic revolutionaries since the Thatcherite-Reaganite era. The fact that label doesn’t describe the product is not a useful discussion. There are no toes in a tootsie roll either.
This reminds me of an [interesting piece](https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first) in *Current Affairs* recently talking about how the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy. It explained how, while right-wing revolutionaries made temporary common cause with national conservatives, they were fundamentally ideologically distinct because of their belief „that there is functionally nothing left to conserve.“
Of course this is the same kind of thing people like [David Brooks](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/brooks-true-conservatism-dead-fox-news-voter-suppression/620853/) have been saying for a while.
Danielle Smith is the very definition of a populist politician.
[Danielle Smith and the Alberta Version of Tactical Populism](https://www.policymagazine.ca/danielle-smith-and-the-alberta-version-of-tactical-populism/)
Trump, Pollievre, Preston Manning……. are also Right Wing populists.
Trump and MAGA transformed a conservative party (GOP) into a populist party.
In doing so they alienated, marginalized and turfed conservatives who didn’t transform with the parties new populist agenda and narrative. See Romney, John McCain, Liz Cheney, etc
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada began its transformation to a populist party when it absorbed the populist Reform Party.
Conservatives like Tim Houston and Erin O’toole didn’t embrace the populist narrative, tone and agenda.
In Europe most conservative parties chose not to merge or didn’t get taken over by right wing populist factions and instead remained separate conservative parties (ie Germanys AFD and UK Reform Party are standalone RW populist parties).